A number of paywalled sites allow Google through either because it's in their self interest to do so or because they have a business arrangement with them. Thi

A number of paywalled sites allow Google through either because it's in their self interest to do so or because they have a business arrangement with them. This has been going on for a long time. It used to be that Google would penalize a site in its search results for showing their web crawler something other than what a user would see but that appears to have been relaxed in recent years, at least for the larger paywall sites.[1] [1] I believe that's the case... I don't recall in earlier years paywall pages ranking so high in the search results but my memory could be faulty on this.